Thank you!

Thanks to your advocacy efforts on our behalf, we're happy to report that the recently passed Omnibus Spending Bill includes a very small increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities! While our work is not over with regards to the upcoming 2018 budget to be passed in the fall, the Omnibus Spending Bill represents an endorsement of the important work that the humanities do for our communities. These funds will continue to support our work of providing free access to authoritative content about Virginia's history and culture.

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Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster, American politician and orator, peers directly into the camera in this daguerreotype portrait made in Boston circa 1847 by photographer and inventor John Adams Whipple. Whipple is noted not only for his daguerreotype portraits of people and buildings, but also for his pioneering daguerreotypes of the moon, which he made using a refractor telescope at Harvard.